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Måneskinshave Watercolor On Cotton Paper 2023, 30"x 22" Blue Plum Blossoms Kyanite
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emperornorton47 · 9 months
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nemfrog · 1 month
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The root system of a fruit tree. Practical and scientific fruit culture. 1866.
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heaveninawildflower · 11 months
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Illustrations of trees taken from ‘Larousse’ (1932).
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prunel · 2 months
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“Persimmon tree" by Zhengrong Zhang
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headspace-hotel · 1 year
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Pawpaw seed update:
Had strange experience—with one of my sprouting seeds, I had to *cut* the little seedling's emerging leaves out of the seed. The baby plant had fully lifted the seed out of the ground but it looked like the leaves couldn't split the seed open.
The baby plant seems fine now, I'm surprised my surgery didn't kill it.
My hypothesis is that the seed is supposed to soften and decompose through dampness, but these seeds were too dry.
Makes me wonder if pawpaw seeds are said to lose viability when they dry out because they don't sprout, or because the seedling gets stuck and can't emerge.
Also wondering if I should take an xacto knife and cut the existing seeds along their length so the baby plant can split them open.
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christenhelm · 8 months
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📸 The Seasonal Homestead
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jillraggett · 5 months
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Plant of the Day
Monday 13 November 2023
In Castle Gordon Walled Garden, Scotland, a range of apple cultivars have been harvested and were being stored including:
Malus domestica 'Michaelmas Red' (apple) an extremely sweet, juicy and aromatic fruit. It was raised in Kent, UK, in 1929.
Malus domestica ‘Joybells’(apple) raised by Will Tayler in Godalming, Surrey, with records showing that trees were grafted in about 1914.
Malus domestica ‘Howgate Wonder’ (apple) one of the largest cooking apples in cultivation. It was raised on the Isle of Wight, UK, in 1915 by G. Wratten of Howgate Lane, Bembridge. The cultivar was a cross between Malus domestica ‘Newton Wonder’ and Malus domestica ‘Blenheim Orange’.
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balkanradfem · 5 months
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Today I found out there's a way to propagate fruit trees that is superior both to grafting and cutting, and I am both mad that I didn't know this before, and crazy excited about trying it out, it's almost like plant magic!
The name of it is Marcotting. It's a great way to save old fruit varieties that are dying! Or if you just have a tree you want a clone of.
So this is what you do. You pick a fruit tree that you want to clone, and you pick a healthy branch, take a knife, and peel a bit of the bark off, only about 1-2cm. Then you take a plastic bag, tape it so it's fastened under the cut, fill it with wet soil, and then tape it again, above the cut. What you did was make sure that the part of the peeled bark is completely surrounded by soil.
You leave that soil bag on the tree for 2 months.
And it will grow roots in there.
Once it grows roots, you can cut that branch off, and plant it. It will grow like a new tree, 100% the same genes, same species, 100% giving you the same fruit.
I'm so insanely excited to try this, most cuttings just die for me, and all trees from seeds either need to be grafted, or will be giving some wild produce, but this is a simple way to gain any fruit tree that you can get away with putting a little bag of soil on for a few months. The varieties that are usually easily propagated this way are citrus, fig, mulberry, and lychee. It takes 6 months for an apple tree to get roots like this!
Here's a link where you can read more about it, and a video where you can see it being done! Go forth and plant those fruit trees. Future generations will prosper from your effort.
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~ Orange and Green ~
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ahedderick · 7 days
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Man, it's 20° here this morning (that's -7C). I feel like the biggest problem local farmers/orchardists/gardeners are going to have now and going forward is that warm temps occur earlier in spring and later in fall - but cold temps occur in the exact same range they always did. That is: we'll see warm temps in March instead of April, but it will continue to occasionally drop below freezing well into May as it always has. I don't see how blossoming fruit trees and bushes will ever be able to cope with that.
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theroadtofairyland · 3 months
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Beguiled Again
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Apricot Blossoms
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solarpunks · 11 months
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Oakland's Radical Plant Nursery Breaks the Prison Cycle
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to East Oakland, California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage and benefits to former prisoners with unbelievable results: a 2% recidivism rate, compared to 60% for the State of California. The nursery itself has an incredible diversity of edible and useful plant species and varieties, custom selected to grow an epic permaculture garden.
ORDER YOUR PLANTS: https://plantingjustice.org/
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nemfrog · 6 months
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Varieties of peaches. Keystone State Nurseries. 1925
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kochlandhomestead · 4 months
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Yes please!!!!
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prunel · 3 months
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Winter Meal
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